Flower Gardening

Everyone loves a beautiful flower garden, but they don't get to be so beautiful on their own. While many grow them for the enjoyment, as well as for the beauty and sometimes profit, a lot of knowledge and work goes into that beauty! Ask your questions about the propagation, planting, maintenance, trouble shooting, harvesting, enjoyment, and more of flower gardening. Questions about famous flower gardens around the world are welcome, too!

Yes! Perennials are plants that live for at least three years and typically bloom for one season each year. Their counterparts are annuals, which have to be replanted yearly, and the lesser-known biennials, which take two years to complete their growth cycle.
Although many perennials live a long time, they don't live forever, and some might die in as little as three or five years.

yes. I have never heard of making a candle out of a flower
before. Maybe use the flower as a base and dip it in hot wax over
and over again and put a wick in the center. However, it should be
possible to extract oil from the flower, retaining it's smell of
jasmine. If you had enough of them, you would be able to scent a
candle. You could also embed the flower itself in the hot wax and
not only get some scent out of it as it burns, but it would look
pretty at the side of the candle.
A bit more:
I would advise letting the flower dry first, otherwise the
moisture in the flower may rot inside the wax. You can dry flowers
using a food dehydrator, or by placing them in the oven on the top
rack, and on the "warm" setting for about 30 minutes, then turn off
the oven and let them remain overnight without opening the oven
door.

Four Parts of a Flower:
Typically a flower has four structures.
These are attached to the stalk and ordered as four whorls.
Starting from the lowest, they are as follows.
Calyx: These are the sepals and enclose the flower
when it is still a bud.
Corolla: These are the petals.
Androecium: These are the stamens. Stamens are
where pollen is produced.
Gynoecium: This is the pistil, the innermost whorl
of a flower, composed of units called carpels which is the
structure for the egg cells that turn into seeds.
In another terminology, one hears the four parts of the flower
described as pistil, stamen, petals and sepal.
The gynoecium, the innermost whorl is the pistil and consists of
an ovary, style and stigma.
A pistil one or several carpels fused together.
The sticky tip of the pistil, the stigma, is where pollen
attaches to the stalk.
The style is supportive stalk where the pathway for pollen tubes
grow from where the pollen grains attach.

Rather than give you a scientific botanical answer, here's a
simple one related to human beings that helps to describe this kind
of plant or flower.
In Australia, the Aboriginal people are indigenous, which means
they come from Australia and nowhere else. They are unique to that
continent.
An indigenous plant is one that is unique to a particular place.
For example, the California poppy is indigenous to the state of
California.
Both aborigines and poppies can live elsewhere if it is to their
liking, but their origins remain the same no matter how long they
dwell in the new location.
However, unless you can prove a plant totally originates in the
place that you are, the chances are that they were brought back to
that country from another country, by the intrepid botanists of the
16th century to present day. Also many seeds floated across oceans
and landed on other shores and eventually became indigenous. It is
an interesting subject..for many that we call plants in the Uk for
instance, are classed as weeds elsewhere

Agapanthus colour is normally genetically determined, as such a
white flower cannot turn blue. This does happen with flowers such
as Hydrangea, where a blue or white flower can be turned pink -
this is a result of the pH or acidity level of the soil

Yes. Let them mature naturally on the plant. Collect (pick) the
seeds when they are full and dry. Store in a dry place and protect
from freezing over the winter. Plant directly into the ground in
spring.

i had this same problem with my "stargazer" oriental hybrid
lilys. They kept dieing and i didnt know why... this helped me alot
http://www.hillgardens.com/hy-lilies.htm hope they help you like
they did me ^^

That they are rich in nitrogen, which is an essential
plant nutrient, is the reason why waste products can be used to
help grow plants.
Specifically, among the most effective waste products are those
from such soil food web members are earthworms. Nitrogen tends to
be readily present in the soil, but not often available to plants.
It only is available for intake by plant roots if it is in soluble
form. Soil food web members such as earthworms take in nitrogen,
which is eliminated in soluble form due to processing inside the
worm's body.

Women like a great many flowers besides roses. It is best to ask
what the woman of your life prefers. Or you may want your florist
make a suggestion based on what is currently blooming and perhaps
go with your woman's favorite color. You could see if flower
"language" helps get your message across.

All or most types of Galápagos Finches do.
When I was in Morocco at a souk (or market) a vendor was selling
Prickly Pear fruit which he had piled in a pannier carried by a
donkey. When we asked to buy he used a pocket knife to peel the
spiny skins off the fruit. The flesh was juicy and sweet and a bit
pippy. So to answer your question: people eat Prickly pear
cacti.

A florist calls many flowers on one stem a "spray"; for example
spray mums or spray roses.
A botanist would call a number of flowers on one stem an
"inflorescence" and then use other words to describe how exactly
the flowers are arranged on the stem, such as "spike" (ex.
snapdragons), "panicle" (ex. blue flax) or "umbel" (ex.
yarrow).